Sevens
On August 6, 2001, George W. Bush received the infamous PDB that he ignored, titled “bin-Laden Determined to Strike the U.S.”. Seven years later, the implications of ignoring the memo are larger than ever.
Seven years ago today, at the outset of a four week vacation in Crawford, George Bush received a Presidential Daily Briefing memo titled “bin-Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.“. He then proceeded to shoot a 7 on the first hole at his local golf course. The legacy media was dutifully impressed. (”Watch this drive.”)
During the first seven months of 2001, George Tenet was running around Washington, DC with his “hair on fire”, trying to get George Bush (or anyone in his administration) to listen to the intelligence chatter about a pending al-Qaeda strike. Richard Clarke documented Tenet’s head blaze, as did Andy Borowitz (a must-read if there ever was one).
On Sept. 11th, 2001, after George W. Bush was informed of the attacks on the World Trade Center, he sat reading a children’s book for another seven minutes.
Coincidence? You decide.
